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Very interesting article here about how a linguists in northeastern India recently discovered a new language.  A National Geographic team co-chaired by Greg Anderson, who spoke in Portland last year, was trying to study a language called Aka but instead discovered an entirely new language called Koro, which was completely unknown to Westerners.  There are only an estimated 800 living people who still speak Koro.

I think Greg Anderson has the world’s coolest job. This is fascinating.  By the way, the Koro speakers in the pictures in India look more East Asian than South Asian.  See and hear the National Geographic recordings here: